Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: men-sa-twit-a

Sentence: Hearing impaired members of the intelligent society often complain that the mensatwitter at their meetings makes it hard to follow proceedings. But nevertheless they cannot help twittering to themselves as they engage in intellectual exercises.

Etymology: Mensa (qualification for membership of which was a high IQ) + twitter (sound of birds chirping)

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COMMENTS:

Funny! Also sounds like something that "men", rather than women, do. - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 07:48:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: men tahl jim nas teeks

Sentence: They were not ordinary eeks. they were mentalgymnasteeks, but unfortunately the examiner had no sense of perspective.

Etymology: mental gymnastics, eek

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: brA-nEE-yak

Sentence: Jill listened in on her brainiyak boyfriend as he conversed to himself, figuring the solution to an astrophysics formula.

Etymology: brain, smart person/maniac, strange or eccentric/ yak, to talk

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COMMENTS:

good one toadstool! - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 07:45:00

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Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: suh-rone-eh-s

Sentence: We all knew that Betty had a lot on her plate, but her ceronas was starting to distract people in the nearby cubicles.

Etymology: Cerebrum [latin: brain, skull] + Sonas [latin: sound]

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Created by: TONYCCIA

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: cak/l/cu/layt

Sentence: He would cackleculate so loudly when he was thinking up words for verbotomy that his girlfriend recorded it for Halloween and got him a cauldron to sit on

Etymology: cackle + calculate

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COMMENTS:

The kids must been scared! But how did his girlfriend cope? - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 14:51:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: thot tik yoo layt

Sentence: Kim could always tell when Sheldon was having a brainstorm. His process to thoughticulate involved making weird sounds, similar to dolphins calling to coyotes. His heretofore mental constipation would erupt into a noisy verbal diarrhea...That was why she panelled his office in sound-proof materials.

Etymology: Thought (the process of thinking, especially thinking carefully) & Articulate (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)

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COMMENTS:

I wonder what the coyotes would think of dolphin talk? - artr, 2009-08-24: 11:21:00

They would probably wonder at the porpoise of it all... - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:54:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: koj skweek tay shun

Sentence: Shelley knew every time when Mortimer was trying to come up with a new Verbotomy word because she could hear his cogsqueaktation all the way from upstairs. It was like the sound of very rusty bedsprings being scraped down a blackboard and it made her wince.

Etymology: Cogitation (attentive consideration and meditation;a carefully considered thought about something)& Squeak (a high-pitched, screeching noise)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: shrel/storm

Sentence: When the pressure is on to produce at work, he sits in a corner and shrillstorms ideas to the annoyance of his colleagues.

Etymology: shrill + brainstorm

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: awe-toe-jib-burr

Sentence: Daniel had a habit of autogibbering loudly when stumped by difficult questions.

Etymology: auto+gibber, from Greek auto- (self) and gibberish (nonsense).

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COMMENTS:

My first verboticism. Enjoy. - Discoveria, 2007-01-24: 20:39:00

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